2005-2006 Human Rights Workshops
Contact: Lisa Simeone

Winter 2006

All workshops are at 4:30 in Pick 105. For copies of the papers, contact Lisa Simeone (lsimeone@uchicago.edu) or call the Human Rights Program at 834-0957.  Persons with a disability or who feel they may need assistance should also contact 834-0957.

Thursday, January 19: “Transcending the Individualist Paradigm in Sexual Orientation Antidiscrimination Law,” Holning Lau, Public Policy Fellow, Williams Project on Sexual Orientation Law, UCLA School of Law

Thursday, February 16: “Everyone with Eyes Can See the Problem: Moral Citizens and the Space of Irish Nationhood,” Anwen Tormey, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

Thursday, February 23: “Bernard Williams’s Political Philosophy,” Michael Green, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago

Thursday, March 2: “Anti-Communism in the Streets: Refugee Politics in Cold-War Germany, 1945-1955,” Anna Holian, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History

Autumn 2005

The October 14 th workshop will be held at 12:00 in Kelly 114. All others are at 4:30 in Pick 105. For copies of the papers, contact Lisa Simeone (lsimeone@uchicago.edu) or call the Human Rights Program at 834-0957.  Persons with a disability or who feel they may need assistance should also contact 834-0957.

Friday, October 14: “Death, Destiny, and Dissonance in the Revolutionary Constitution: The Death Penalty in Mexico, 1917-1920,” Everard Kidder Meade, Assistant Professor of History, University of California at San Diego

Thursday, October 20: “Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: War Crimes and Terror in Chechnya,” Emma Gilligan, Post-Doctoral Fellow in History, University of Chicago

 Thursday, November 3: “Between Globalizing Present and Cosmopolitan Future? Toward a Transnational Politics of Popular Sovereignty,” Adam Lupel, Managing Editor, Constellations Journal and Graduate Faculty, Department of Political Science, New School University

Thursday, November 17: “Are Migrant Workers’ Rights Human Rights? Hoffman Plastics v NLRB and the Sovereign Power to Discriminate Under International Law,” Lisa Simeone, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago